Louis Lortie
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Saint-Saëns: Cello Concertos Nos. 1 & 2
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Truls Mørk (cello), Louis Lortie (piano), Hélène Mercier (piano) & Alasdair Malloy (glass harmonica)
Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Neeme Järvi
[Mørk's] noble command is ideal in the darkly blazing, virtuosic second concerto. One of our great lyric instrumentalists, he gives a deeply-felt, but never over-dramatised performance, a piercing... —
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2016, Editor's Choice
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utterly beautiful, taken slowly and played with great delicacy... Lortie and Mercier’s two Bosendorfer grands have been superbly recorded once again in the Snape Maltings by producer, engineer... —
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The playing by the two distinguished pianists is faultless, distinctly outlining the notes with a clarity of separation; the recording in the superb acoustic of the Snape Maltings captures the... —
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Gardner and the BBC Symphony, backed up by glittering sound, do [the Symphonic Variations] proud, from the folk-like opening flute theme, through its varied treatments...Lortie is an ideal soloist... —
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2012, Editor's Choice
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Saint-Saëns: Piano Concertos Nos. 3 and 5 'Egyptian'
Louis Lortie (piano), BBC Philharmonic, Edward Gardner
In all four works, the performing is of the highest standard. Louis Lortie is more than equal to Saint-Saëns’s fearsome virtuosity, but alongside heaven-storming finer work is a captivating... —
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Juno Awards, 2021, Nominated - Classical Album of the Year (Solo or Chamber)
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Make no mistake, this is artistry of the highest order. In their hands, Strauss's melodic fluency somehow manages to combine rich luxuriance with deftness of gesture. —
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2014, Chamber Finalist
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2013, Editor's Choice
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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an understated view of the composer, yet one that is fully cultivated and always convincing...not that Lortie is afraid of big expression, or lacking in virtuosity: his elegant playing always... —
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Lortie proves excellently skilled in the necessary arts for these concertos. He can chatter and twinkle for bars on end, sculpt phrases, and produce splendid decorative flourishes. Orchestral... —
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Louis Lortie's credentials for taking on this greatest of musical pilgrimages are self-evident from the start. The opening 'Chapelle de Guillaume Tell', from the Switzerland-inspired first book,... —
